Matthew Cheung

Matthew Cheung (20 November 1950-) was the Hong Kong Secretary for Labor and Welfare from 1 July 2007 to 16 January 2017 (succeeding Stephen Ip and preceding Stephen Sui) and Chief Secretary for Administration from 16 January 2017 (succeeding Carrie Lam).

Biography
Matthew Cheung was born in Hong Kong in 1950, and he worked as an Information Officer for the British government and helped document the Vietnamese refugee crisis of the 1970s. He went on to serve in several ministerial positions during the 1990s and 2000s before serving as Secretary for Labor and Welfare from 2007 to 2017 and Chief Secretary for Administration from 2017. On 1 September 2019, amid widespread anti-China protests in the country, he stated that schools were not places to express political views or demands.